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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [58 STAT. March 10, 1944 [E. A. . 401] Agreement between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland respecting copyright extension. Effected by exchange of notes signed at Washington March 10, 1944; effective March 10, 1944. The British Ambassador to the Secretary of State 55 Stat. 732. 17 U. . C., Supp; n, is. BRITSH EMBASSY, WASHINaTON, D. C. No. 144 March 10th, 1944. MB. SECRETARY OF STATE, The attention of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been invited to the Act of Congress of the United States of America approved 25th September, 1941, which provides for extending, on a reciprocal basis, the time for the fulfilment of the conditions and formalities prescribed by the copyright laws of the United States in the case of authors or proprietors of works first produced or published abroad who are temporarily unable to comply with those conditions and formalities because of the disruption or suspension of the facilities essential for their compliance. By direction of Mr. Eden, I write to inform you that, by reason of the existing emergency, British authors and copyright proprietors of certain of His Majesty's dominions, colonies and possessions and citizens of Palestine (excluding Trans-Jordan) do at present lack, and since the outbreak of the war between the United Kingdom and Germany on September 3rd, 1939, have lacked the facilities essential to compliance with and to the fulfilment of the conditions and formalities established by the laws of the United States relating to copyright. It is the desire of His Majesty's Government in the United King- dom that, in accordance with the procedure provided in the said Act of September 25th, 1941, the time for fulfilling the conditions and formalities of the copyright laws of the United States be extended for the benefit of (1) British nationals of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of the British territories named in the annexed list, and (2) citizens of Palestine (excluding Trans-Jordan), whose works are eligible to copyright in the United States. With a view to assuring the Government of the United States of America of reciprocal protection for authors and proprietors of the United States, His Majesty the King has made an Order in Council, the text of which is annexed hereto, which will come into effect from the date on which the President of the United States shall proclaim, in accordance with the said Act of September 25th, 1941 that by reason of the existing emergency, British nationals of the United 1242

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